Job Description
The role involves overseeing quality management and assurance for data center construction projects, ensuring adherence to standards from NTP to completion, and coordinating with various teams to deliver reliable, mission-critical infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and oversee the quality of data center construction from NTP to COD, ensuring compliance with established standards and requirements.
- Develop and maintain a Quality Management System aligned with ISO 9001 principles tailored for mission-critical infrastructure.
- Define QA policies, inspection regimes, acceptance criteria, and escalation pathways for all projects.
- Serve as the final technical authority on quality disputes among designers, contractors, vendors, and commissioning agents.
- Qualify, audit, and review critical equipment vendors and their factory acceptance testing protocols.
- Lead constructability, coordination, and quality reviews of electrical, mechanical, structural systems, and construction documents.
- Oversee project-level QA/QC teams and third-party inspectors, including defining inspection and test plans for critical systems.
- Audit contractor QC programs, subcontractor workmanship, and material traceability; lead root-cause analysis for defects and non-conformances.
- Manage quality control testing, inspections, and documentation to ensure conformance with contract requirements and standards.
- Drive continuous improvement and lessons learned during construction, including managing non-conformances and CAPA actions.
- Ensure quality continuity during commissioning and system testing, overseeing punch-list resolution and deficiency closure.
- Lead handover and turnover processes, ensuring operational and maintainability standards are met before project hand-off.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering Electrical, Mechanical, or Structural required
- 12 years in quality, engineering, commissioning, or construction leadership within Data centers, Semiconductor fabs, Power generation or other mission-critical infrastructure
- Demonstrated authority interacting with EPCs, designers, and hyperscale clients
- Proven ability to identify latent defects and systemic risks before they reach operations
- Experience in design-build and fast-track delivery models
- Technical knowledge of mission-critical electrical systems up to and including medium-voltage distribution
- Technical knowledge of mechanical cooling systems for high-density and liquid-cooled environments
- Knowledge of redundancy architectures N, N+1, 2N, distributed redundancy
- Understanding of commissioning methodologies and failure-mode testing
- Familiarity with applicable codes and standards including NEC, NFPA, IBC, IFC, IEEE, ASHRAE, ASME, Uptime Institute, TIA-942 concepts
- Ability to develop and maintain a developer-wide Quality Management System aligned with ISO 9001 principles
- Ability to define QA policies, inspection regimes, acceptance criteria, and escalation pathways for all projects
- Serve as final technical authority on quality disputes between designers, contractors, vendors, and commissioning agents
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of EPC contracts, specifically the quality portion, to assist in developing onsite procedures
- Experience qualifying and auditing critical equipment vendors such as switchgear, generators, UPS, cooling systems, including reviewing factory acceptance testing (FAT) protocols and results
- Experience leading constructability, coordination, and quality reviews of electrical one-lines, protection studies, grounding, arc-flash mitigation, mechanical systems, structural systems, and verifying alignment between Basis of Design, Owner’s Project Requirements, and final construction documents
- Ability to oversee project-level QA/QC teams and third-party inspectors, define inspection and test plans (ITPs) for critical systems, and audit contractor QC programs and subcontractor workmanship
- Experience leading root-cause analysis for defects, non-conformances, and field failures
- Ability to review construction drawings, specifications, and submittals for conformance with project specifications
- Experience managing and validating closure of non-conformances and CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Actions)
- Proficiency in performing quality control testing and inspections in adherence to contract requirements and best practices
- Ability to oversee project quality during construction, commissioning, and turnover phases, including validating functional performance testing, punch-list resolution, and documentation for operational standards
- Experience leading handover and turnover processes, ensuring quality continuity from construction into operational systems testing
- Strong leadership skills to manage quality teams and coordinate with EPCs, designers, and vendors
- Ability to review and audit testing and commissioning of building systems
- Experience with quality assurance and control in data center or mission-critical infrastructure projects
- Preferred: Professional Engineer (PE) license, commissioning or quality certifications such as CxA, PMP, ISO lead auditor
- Location preference: RWC, CA, or TX
Benefits & Perks
Base salary range of $190,000 - $220,000, tailored based on skills, experience, and market benchmarks
Discretionary annual bonus
Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including 100% company-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision for employees and dependents
401(k) plan with company match
Generous paid time off including 11 paid holidays and 12 weeks paid parental leave
Life, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability insurance coverage
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for Medical, Dependent Care, and Transit
Parking with company contributions
Monthly reimbursement for phone and internet data
Optional legal pet insurance plans
Device purchase support
Flexible work arrangements including hybrid office setup
Wellness support programs for mental, physical, and social health
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